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And for CI if he's still at the computer, here's a bit about a building in Antartica, via the same website source and the Guardian -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1382508,00.html

I recall listening to Yma Sumac in the mid 60s. Amazing octave range.

Rock Island Line it is for sure, Letty. I cut and pasted that out of Amazon so it escaped my notice.

Yma Sumac now, she had an amazing voice. I remember she was featured in a film set among the Inca of Peru: Gold of the Andes, was it?

My pal Tony said she was a lady called Amy Camus originally. Can any of your listeners confirm that?

McTag
McTag, Yma Sumac's birth name was Zoila Imperatriz Charrari Sumac del Castillo.

South American singer Yma Sumac is best known for her amazing vocals and exotic arrangements. Although rumored to actually be a housewife named Amy Camus* from Brooklyn, she was, as she claimed, a Peruvian of Inca descent.

Born in a village high in the Andes, she began performing at an early age, appearing on radio and in movies. In 1942, she married composer and bandleader Moisés Vivanco and made her first recordings of Peruvian folk songs in 1943, as Imma Sumack, in Argentina on the Odeon label.

In 1946, she and Vivanco moved to New York, where she performed with the Conjunto Folklorico Peruano until being signed by Capitol Records in 1950. During the fifties, she produced a series of legendary lounge recordings featuring Hollywood-style versions of Incan and South American folk songs. The combination of her extraordinary voice, exotic looks and stage personality made her a hit with American audiences.

In the late fifties, she and Vivanco divorced. They remarried in the early sixties for a brief period before divorcing again. They had one son, Charles, born in 1949.

In 1961, Yma toured the Soviet Union for six months, performing for sell-out crowds. She spent the rest of the sixties performing sporadically. In 1971, she released a rock album, called Miracles, and then returned to live in Peru, performing concerts both there and in New York. She continued performing, both in the U.S. and abroad, throughout the eighties and into the nineties. In 1987, she recorded a song for Stay Awake, an album of Disney songs. She currently lives in Los Angeles and has been working on a new album.

Well thank you BBB for that information, that's extremely fulsome.
No Amy Camus then.....I thought that sounded a bit unlikely, a very prosaic name for such an exotic lady.

Good morning, WA2K staff and listeners.

Osso, thank you on behalf of all here for that stunning bit of info on the Chinese butterfly center. Amazing and so colorful. So, this is the year of chanticleer, is it?

BBB, as usual, you keep us up to date on the history behind the voice.

What would our station do without our research teams to educate us all.

Back later with more music and items of interest for our listening audience.

McTag, talk to your editor in a stern but fulsome voice. (I just learned a new word, today.)

That word reminded me of the late, great Johnny Cash:

I HEAR THE TRAIN A COMIN, IT'S ROLLIN ROUND THE BEND,
I AIN'T SEEN THE SUNSHINE SINCE I DON'T KNOW WHEN.
C G
I'M STUCK IN FOLSOM PRISON AND TIME KEEPS DRAGGIN ON.
D7 G
BUT THE TRAIN KEEPS ROLLIN ON DOWN TO SAN ANTONE.
G
WHEN I WAS JUST A BABY MY MAMA TOLD ME, SON
ALWAYS BE A GOOD BOY, DON'T EVERY PLAY WITH GUNS.
C G
BUT I SHOT A MAN IN RENO JUST TO WATCH HIM DIE.
D7 G
WHEN I HEAR THAT WHISTLE BLOWIN I HANG MY HEAD AND CRY.
G
I BET THERE'S RICH FOLKS EATIN IN A FANCY DININ CAR,
THEY'RE PROB'LY DRINKIN COFFEE AND SMOKIN BIG CIGARS,
C G
BUT I KNOW I HAD IT COMIN, I KNOW I CAN'T BE FREE,
D7
BUT THOSE PEOPLE KEEP A MOVIN AND THAT'S WHAT
G
TORTURES ME.
G
WELL IF THEY FREED ME FROM THIS PRISON, IF THAT RAILROAD
TRAIN WAS MINE
I BET I'D MOVE A LITTLE FARTHER ON DOWN THE LINE.
C G
FAR FROM FOLSOM PRISON THAT'S WHERE I WANT TO STAY
D7 G
AND I'D LET THAT LONESOME WHISTLE BLOW MY BLUES AWAY.

G
I hear the train a-comin'; it's rollin' 'round the bend,
G G7
And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when,
C7 G
I'm stuck at Folsom Prison and time keeps draggin' on.
D7 G
But that train keeps a-rollin' on down to San Antone.

Is this not the greatest Nostalgia Radio Station ever?

Here's lookin' at you, Yma. I remember you in Omar Khayyam with Cornel Wilde.



Celebrity birthdays today:

1887 Robinson Jeffers, poet/playwright (Pittsburgh, PA; died 1962)
1908 Paul Henreid, actor/director (Trieste, Austria; died 1992)
1935 Sherrill Milnes, opera singer (Downers Grove, IL)
1936 Stephen Ambrose, historian (Decatur, IL)
1945 Rod Stewart, singer/musician (London, England)
1949 George Foreman, champion boxer (Marshall, TX)
1953 Pat Benatar, singer (Brooklyn, NY)
1973 Glenn Robinson, basketball player (Gary, IN)

Remembering Paul Henried. "Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars?

Raggedy, I noticed that Bette didn't show those famous eyes. <smile> Upon my word. Omar Khayyam. I wonder how I missed that movie? My dad used to recite him over and over. (put me to sleep as a kid, cause I didn't understand what he was saying)

Thank you, honey, for that nostalgia.

Interesting news item:

Top Stories - AP


Calif. Principal Bans 'Freak Dancing'

Mon Jan 10, 7:49 AM ET Top Stories - AP



LEMOORE, Calif. - Fed up with students' racy moves, a principal at a California high school has taken the unusual step of canceling the rest of this year's school dances.



Principal Jim Bennett of Lemoore Union High School said he warned students at a winter formal dance last month to either quit dirty dancing or face the possibility of not dancing at all.


But he said the students continued "freak dancing," a form of sexually suggestive dancing that involves grinding the hips and pelvic area.


The ban on dances includes the school's Sadie Hawkins dance in February and the junior and senior proms in the spring, but Bennett said they could be rescheduled if students modify their behavior.


"It's really up to the kids at this point. They have to take some responsibility," Bennett said.


Organizers of the Sadie Hawkins dance, a fund-raiser for the school's Future Farmers of America, are working with Bennett to come up with a series of regulations, which could allow that dance to go on.


One idea is to let students sign a form stating that raunchy dancing will get them kicked out.


Students hope similar regulations could lead to the reinstatement of other dances, particularly the prom.


"Some students save up all year to buy a dress or rent a tuxedo and buy flowers for the prom," said student body president Zohra Lakhani, a 17-year-old senior. "To crush everyone's dreams, it's not fair."


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Information from: The Fresno Bee, http://www.fresnobee.com

Elvis the pelvis would have been suspended at that high school. Earlier, when we were talking about dancing, I had no idea there was such a dance as the Freak, listeners. Guess I am still a bit of a witch with Cassandra thrown in.

Here's the cd I found stunning -

The Ultimate Yma Sumac Collection

Osso, does look tempting, but I don't purchase stuff on the internet.(my son tells me that I should change my attitude)

Incidentally, I saw something in my local paper about Frank Lloyd Wright. Someone purchased one of his homes and invested quite a bit in restoring it. The couple wants to sell it, but only to the "right" people who will leave it as is. Now that's pure and simple hero worship.

I agree with your son, but that's your business.

And I agree with the guy who will sell the restoration (which is a much more stringent thing to do than just remodel) only to one who would keep it restored.

For all you history buffs out there:

, 1776, Thomas Paine published his influential pamphlet, ``Common Sense.''

On this date:

In 1861, Florida seceded from the Union.

In 1863, London's Metropolitan, the world's first underground passenger railway, opened to the public.

In 1870, John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil.

In 1920, the League of Nations was established as the Treaty of Versailles went into effect.

In 1928, the Soviet Union ordered the exile of Leon Trotsky.

In 1946, the first General Assembly of the United Nations convened in London.

In 1957, Harold Macmillan became prime minister of Britain, following the resignation of Anthony Eden.

In 1978, the Soviet Union launched two cosmonauts aboard a Soyuz capsule for a rendezvous with the Salyut 6 space laboratory.

In 1980, former AFL-CIO president George Meany died in Washington, D.C., at age 85.

In 1984, the United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations for the first time in more than a century.

Ten years ago: Russia announced a 48-hour truce in breakaway Chechnya, but the cease-fire fell apart after only a few hours. President Clinton declared flood-stricken areas of California major disaster areas.

Five years ago: America Online announced it was buying Time Warner for $162 billion. Peace talks between Israel and Syria recessed in West Virginia without agreement on new borders or any other major elements of a land-for-peace treaty.

One year ago: North Korea said it had shown its ``nuclear deterrent'' to an unofficial U.S. delegation that visited the disputed Yongbyon nuclear complex. Michelle Kwan won her seventh straight title and eighth overall at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Atlanta; Johnny Weir skated to his first men's title. Actor-writer Spalding Gray, 62, vanished from his New York apartment (his body was found two months later in the East River). Novelist Alexandra Ripley died in Richmond, Va., at age 70.

There were peace talks between Israel and Syria in West Virginia?

There are two old, old resorts in that part of the country. One is the Greenbriar (in WVA, I believe) and the other, the name of which I can't remember is in western Virginia I think. Both are quite luxurious and far too expensive and stuffy for johnboy.
One of my employees, who is married to a doctor, spends a weekend a year there while his wife attends a medical convention. He takes along his mountain bike and spends his days riding and riding.
The talks between Israel/Syria took place there because it is comfortable but isolated from the press.
One of the two hotels mentioned also has this feature. If you ask the right person nicely you can tour the underground vaults buried beneath the hotel, a (now not-so-secret) relic of the cold war.
I can't remember who was supposed to be evacuated there in the event of a nuke war: Supreme Court, Senate.

There is another, similar facility about halfway between Cville and DC that is thought to be the Treasury Dept's fall back position and another place
that I stumbled on that, I think, is something.
I was traipsing around an area (I swear I am not making this up) where Edgar Poe wandered. We ran into some little signs indicating that it was US Gov't property. We noticed cameras swiveling around in the trees and then a voice from a loudspeaker: You are trespassing. Please leave the area immediately.

Hey, John. I know The Greenbriar quite well as our group used to play there. I think that underground bunker was for the entirety of Washington, D.C. Maybe that is where the meeting was held.

That is really unusual about your trek on Poe's trail. That would have given me the jitters.

There is another resort at a place Called Glade Springs, and one called Salt Sulphur Springs.

Tell us more, Virginia.

For those of you who are interested:

http://www.conelrad.com/groundzero/greenbrier.html

For BigDice, there was a master chef with whom we got to be good friends. His name was Paul Bayoud (sp)

Back later, listeners, with further travelogues

I couldn't get anywhere on the link you provided but thanks for jogging my memory. The other resort hotel is White Sulpher Springs. So you played the Greenbriar, Letty?
Which would neatly segue back into our easy listening routine of remembering lyrics to old songs.

Hmmm, John. Another missing link.

Let's try this one:

http://www.greenbrier.com/about_history.asp

I think that Chandelier was in the room referred to as the Crystal Room.

Now that I think of it, it sorta reminds me of JLNobody's womb room--bordella red.

I think Osso would appreciate the architecture. During WWII, the Greenbrier was sort of a holding tank for prisoners of war.

I'll Close My Eyes
From the Movie "The Bridge of Madison County"
Performed by Dinah Washington

Heaven sends
A song through its doors
Just as if it seems to know
I'm exclusively yours

Knowing this
I feel but one way
You will understand too
In these words that I say

I'll close my eyes
To everyone but you
And when I do
I'll see you standing there

I'll lock my heart
To any other caress
I'll never say yes
To a new love affair

Then I'll close my eyes
To everything that's gay
If you are not there
Oh, to share each lovely day

And through the years
In those moments
When we're far apart
Don't you know I'll close my eyes
And I'll see you with my heart

Sweet memories, and Dinah wasn't the only one who sang that.

When I was in Japan the songs we heard played most consistently were Return to Sender (Elvis), Puff the Magic Dragon (Peter Paul and Mary) and the song we are about to hear. Rawhide was a popular show over there and we watched Gil Favor hold up a hand to say Head em up, move'em out. But instead he said, "haiyako" (undoubtedly spelled wrong).


Sukiyaki
[Words by Rokusuke Ei, Music by Hachidai Nakamura]

#1 hit in 1963 for Kyu Sakamoto
Kyu (pronounced "cue") was one of the 520 people
Who died in the crash of a Japan Airlines 747
Near Tokyo on August 12, 1985. He was 43
Released in Japan as "Ue O Muite Aruko"
(I Look Up When I Walk)

Ue o muite arukou
Namida ga kobore naiyouni
Omoidasu harunohi
Hitoribotchi no yoru

Ue o muite arukou
Nijinda hosi o kazoete
Omoidasu natsunohi
Hitoribotchi no yoru

Shiawase wa kumo no ueni
Shiawase wa sora no ueni

Ue o muite arukou
Namida ga kobore naiyouni
Nakinagara aruku
Hitoribotchi no yoru

(Whistling)

Omoidasu akinohi
Hitoribotchi no yoru

Kanashimi wa hosino kageni
Kanashimi wa tsukino kageni

Ue o muite arukou
Namida ga kobore naiyouni
Nakinagara aruku
Hitoribotchi no yoru
Hitoribotchi no yoru

(Whistling)

Medical news.
***********
Gene clue to HIV origin in humans

Researchers compared human and monkey genes
Scientists say they have uncovered an important clue to understanding the origins of the Aids epidemic.
They have pinpointed crucial differences in a gene found in rhesus monkeys that can prevent HIV infection, and its human counterpart, that cannot.

It appears that only a single change to the human gene is needed to enable it to block HIV infection.